Care & Support Worker - Lifestyles Community Services

Care & Support Worker – Lifestyles Community Services

About the Role

Come and work for our Lifestyles team as a Care and Support Worker, where each day is different. You may find yourself spending time supporting our residential clients in the Coach House to hone their independence skills; supporting our supported living clients with outings, education and maintaining their day-to-day lifestyles; or working alongside our community day service clients who come into the service regularly to take part in our outstanding activities programme.

We are looking for staff who can commit to fully participating in supporting people to gain independence, confidence and self-esteem. If you think this sounds like you, and you are interested in the benefits listed below, then we would love to hear from you.

We are offering contracts on a part time or full time basis, working day shifts. As we are a 24-hour service, we operate various shift times and patterns. Most of our staff work across all shift patterns but we will consider requests for a specific type of shift pattern if it can be accommodated.

Please note the following –

· we are unable to offer sponsorship or a switch of sponsorship for this role

Job Opportunity

As Care & Support Worker you will:

As a Strode Park Foundation colleague, you will get comprehensive support from day one and receive training and development opportunities to develop your skills.

The team at the Coach House know how to inspire and encourage the clients. They have exceptional skills when nurturing our residents or day centre clients to grow and develop at every opportunity. Adults aged over 18 with physical disabilities can come along and enjoy our day care opportunities and sensory enrichment programme.

The RISE Centre, our facility specially designed for adults with physical disabilities enables individuals to achieve their own goals and aspirations whilst experiencing and learning new skills, and a variety of therapies and activities. The care programmes are tailored to the individual to ensure everyone receives maximum benefit from their day with us. Further info can be found here:

Essential Skills

Our ideal Care & Support Worker will have:

Desirable Criteria

Creating an Inclusive Environment

Strode Park Foundation (“Strode Park”) is fully committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce and the elimination of unlawful and unfair discrimination. Strode Park truly values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to our organisation.

Our aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and for our service users and each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.

Strode Park will not discriminate because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. It will not discriminate because of any other irrelevant factor, and will build a culture that values meritocracy, openness, fairness and transparency.